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Been having some issues with WordPress on IIS7 windows 2003 for a while now and think I finally got it solved, thought I’d post the info here for others to see, as I had a hard time finding this info myself anywhere else, not even the WordPress website.

This is what I found after a lot of playing around, if you see any issues with this or have any feedback please let me know below.

On the wp-content folder I applied the following permissions.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-content
– IUSR with following permissions

Traverse folder / execute file

List folder / read data

Read attributes

Read extended attributes

Create files / write data

Create folders / append data

Write attributes

Write extended attributes

Delete subfolders and files

Delete

Read permissions

I also have the following groups and users on there

IIS_IUSRS

Trustedinstaller

SYSTEM

Administrators

Users

CREATOR OWNER

Here are the steps I followed

Right click wp-content

Properties

Security tab

Advanced button

Change permissions button

Add button

Advanced button

Find now button

Locate IUSR and double click

OK button

Check box Allow Full control

Uncheck the boxes; Full control, Take ownership, Change permissions

Click OK button

Check box “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”

Click OK button

Click Yes when asked if you want to continue

Click OK button

Click OK button

I’m not making anything in the root writable, like wp-config etc. I change that manually or as a one off.

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